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TIL The US Navy has a Spec Ops team, MK6, comprised of Dolphins and Sea Lions. They're trained to detect enemy divers, attach a device onto their air tank that explodes and alerts personnel of their location.

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1ablW TIL that Marathonist athletes in the early 1900s used brandy, glasses of bubbly, and strychnine (best known now as rat poison) and sometimes even heroin or cocaine to mask pain, increase aggressiveness, and/or give a quick energy boost during races!
7rDOO TIL Sir Henry Irving was the first actor to receive a knighthood — also, his larger-than-life attitude was so frightening his assistant, Bram Stoker, based the character Count Dracula on him
4kE9w TIL Actors Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman became friends while attending Pasadena Playhouse in the 60's. seen as outsiders by their classmates, both were voted "The Least Likely To Succeed".
8Xnb TIL in the Korean War, an American, Australian, and Canadian brigade successfully defended against a Chinese force that outnumbered them at least 5 to 1. The Australian and Canadian battalions bore the brunt of the assault, stopping an entire Chinese division.
xQQo TIL a Texas man walked in on a farmhand molesting his 5-year-old. He flew into a rage and beat the man to death. Realizing what he had done, the dad immediately called the cops and even tried to take the farmhand to the hospital himself. Ultimately, the local sheriff decided not to press charges.